NAVAL TASK FORCE ATTACKS TRUK AND SAIPAN ISLANDS (SAIPAN-MARIANAS ISLANDS, TRUCK - E. CAROLINE ISLANDS) — Part 2 | The Archive Project

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Signal Corps ADC 1769 111 SOURCE: USN Office of Public Relations Ftge ADC FILM: Arch DN&MP, APC, 691' ea Silent 1769 NAVAL TASK FORCE ATTACKS TRUK AND SAIPAN ISLANDS (SAIPAN- MARIANAS ISLANDS, TRUK - E CAROLINE ISLANDS) 24 Mar 1944 GSAP ftge: dive bombing of Japanese airfield. Japanese "Betties" are strafed and go up in flames; diving and strafing Japanese cargo ships showing bomb hits and near misses. AV, bomb hits on Japanese installations, burning oil dumps. Low level bombing of cargo ships. LS, US warships at sea send up curtain of AA fire; in distance Japanese bomber is hit and falls into sea. LS, streams of tracer shells are fired into the sky. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/ek

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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1944-03-24

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